Baby Bull
Sir:
Congratulations on the outstanding analysis of the current stock market [TIME, June 14] ...
BERNARD S. WALLERSTEIN Newark, NJ.
Sir:
The front cover is wonderful, but who ever saw a newborn bull with long horns and worn hoofs? . . .
RICHARD B. HUMPHREY Dallas, Tex.
P: The Wall Street breed is extraordinarily precocious.--ED.
Sir:
TIME's Young Bull is no "cute trick." Foddered on war's destruction, Europe's need, and two-year chunks of young men's lives, the heifer's growth will be a national disgrace.
WALLACE HAMILTON New York City
P: If TIME's bull turns out to be a heifer, it will be the bovine event of the year.--ED.
Lordly Lament
Sir:
AN OLD SUBSCRIBER REGRETS THAT YOUR USUALLY WELL-INFORMED MAGAZINE IS SO IGNORANT OF ENGLISH POLITICS AS TO PRINT SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF "THE TEMPEST & THE TOSSED" IN JUNE 14 ISSUE [calling the House of Lords "little more than a debating society filled with crotchety, beef-pink, ultraconservative old men"]. YOUR LONDON EDITOR SHOULD ATTEND LORDS DEBATE AND MODERNIZE HIS FACTS.
LORD DOVERDALE Droitwich, England
P: TIME's House of Lords correspondent declares that non-beefy, non-crotchety, 44-year-old Lord Doverdale is an exceptional peer.--ED.
Want Ad
Sir:
Your "Wanted: College Graduates" [TIME, June 14] interested me greatly. Perhaps you would be interested in an exception to that situation.
Lois Henderson, age 22, was graduated from Wilson College in 1947 with an English major, Classical Languages minor . . . [She] obtained her first job in Pittsburgh selling notions in a department store, take-home pay $22.50 a week . . .
Since May 1, Miss Henderson has been in Los Angeles looking for a job, any job . . . Would TIME's Los Angeles staff be interested in a baby-sitter who can teach their children Greek? . . .
Lois HENDERSON Los Angeles, Calif.
P: If so, phone Normandy 1-3289.--ED.
Hubble Bubble
Sir:
YOU REPORT DOCTOR HUBBLE AS SAYING: "WE HAD HOPED THAT THE 200-INCH [Palomar Mountain telescope] WOULD BE THIS GOOD, AND IT IS, BY GOD" [TIME, JUNE 14].
RUBBISH. IN 22 YEARS' ASSOCIATION WITH HUBBLE I HAVE NEVER HEARD HIM USE PROFANITY. THE ATTRIBUTED REMARK IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER . .
E. T. BELL
California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Calif.
P: TIME's source was a responsible Pasadena newsman. Astronomer Hubble himself does not remember whether he made the statement or not, "rather doubts" that he did because he is not a swearing man. "I may not have made the remark on this particular occasion," he adds, "but I assure you that I do not button my collar on the back of my neck."--ED.
Robinson Crusoe Land
Sir:
The story about the Juan Fernandez Islands off Chile [TIME, June 14] establishes them as the setting of Robinson Crusoe . . . However, I think you may be interested to know that the island of Tobago, just north of Trinidad in the British West Indies, lays claim to the actual physical and geographical setting of the story told by Defoe ...
Tobago is a popular resort and easily accessible--something that Mas-a-Tierra isn't . . .
WALLACE B. ALIG New York City
P: Reader Alig has a point. Although Defoe based his story on the true experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands, the fictional Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on an island at the approximate location of Tobago.--ED.
Butterflies at Belmont
Sir:
TIME [June 14] tells about Bernard Baruch's losing $2,200 at a race track, having the money returned to him, and remarking: "This proves that everyone at the race track is honest."
The story reminded me of a gusty afternoon at Belmont Park 40 years or so ago. Bills flew away like wind-crazed butterflies when a bookmaker opened his cashbox shortly before betting began on the first race. Scores of persons joined in the chase to retrieve the bills, and all were returned to him. The next day a Manhattan evening paper remarked unctuously that he could not have been luckier had he been at a Sunday-school picnic.
SAMUEL EDWARD HARRIS Key West, Fla.
Positively Szyk
Sir:
Not content with its own consistently anti-Zionist policy, TIME [June 14] finds it necessary to censure Cartoonist Arthur Szyk for his extremely appropriate cartoons on both Bevin and John Bull . . .
Mr. Szyk's . . . portrayal of the current role of Bevin and John Bull in the Middle East is without a grain of fiction ... As for the technicalities, the possibility that Bevin does not hold a Fascist Party card is irrelevant . . .
EPHRAIM D. AINSPAN
Albany, N.Y.
Sir:
. . . Just as the exaggeration of physiognomical characteristics serves to accentuate a bodily feature, so does the employment of a symbol or label emphasize the pursuance of a theory or method . . . The use of the swastika is merely an inference that Bevin and his government have adopted tactics which aid the opponents of Israel . . .
GEORGE FALKOWITZ Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sir:
Those swastika-embellished anti-British cartoons . . . made me positively Szyk.
The slanderous pictorial caricature of a government which was Jewry's strongest ally against Naziism long before America, is bad enough . . . The deceitful caricature of fact (represented by a bristling British-supplied pile of Arab arms contrasted with a lone, harmless little Zionist child with a popgun) is most deplorable . . .
JAY ANGELL
Chicago, Ill.
Pearls
Sir:
Orchids for the . . . colorful prose picture, together with the fine color photographs of various sections of Europe [TIME, June 14]. It should prove of especial interest to those who, like myself, were G.I. tourists on the Continent some four years ago . . .
DONALD R. VOSBURGH
Broadalbin, N.Y.
Sir:
I have missed few issues of TIME since your first ... So often, I find an exquisite gem buried within its covers . . . "Reflections" [is] another perfect addition to your long string of pearls.
DONALD L. ROBERTSON, M.D. Modesto, Calif.
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